27 MAY 1837, Page 8

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Sir 'Francis Head, Knight, is promoted to the rank of Baronet, as a reward for packing a Parliament in Upper Canada ; and the Morning Chronicle announees the circumstance with approbation. Now, all that the public know about Sir Francis is that he found the Parliament in Upper Canada intractable; that he dissolved it, and somehow massaged to get one to his liking. Very respectable men from Upper Canada came over to this country just at the close of the last session of Parliament, and charged Sir Francis with having gained his majority by bribery and other unlawful means. The persons alluded to requested an interview with Lord Glenelg to state what they knew. Lord Glenelg would not see them : he did not think it worth while to examine intelligent men from the colony—he was already so well informed on Canadian subjects ; but he prevailed upon them to state their charges in writing. These charges he sent over to Canada, and called upon Sir Francis to reply to them. Sir Francis sent his reply, which is delayed to be satisfactory. To be sure it is satisfactory. Is Sir Francis Head a complete booby ? Is he such an ass as not to pick out his own witnesses, and make them say what suited his purpose ? He may not have done this : Dr. bun- combe and Mr. Baldwin, though trusted by their fellow citizens, may be scoundrels or random-talkers; but it would have been decent at all events to wait until the defence of Sir Francis Head had been pub- lished and scrutinized in Upper Canada, before deciding, with "breath- less baste," that he was right and his accusers wrong,—that his wit-

nesses were to be believed, and the testimony of his accusers stigmatized as false. At all events, since it appears (for this will not be denied) that there is a very numerous party in the province who look upon Sir Francis as the unscrupulous tool of a Downing Street bumbureaucrat, it would have been prudent to have avoided a gratuitous insult to that party.